There are mounting allegations the Thai military is trading Rohingya refugees from Western Burma to human traffickers.

Last week PM broadcast allegations that Thai military officers shot and killed Rohingya off the Thai coast but there is also continued accusations that Thai officials are involved in selling Rohingya to brokers, who then sell them on as bonded labourers.

Fresh water is emerging as a pressing
need for those in Burma affected by last week's magnitude 6.8 earthquake.

The quake killed 74 people in Burma and
one in Thailand but there are uncomfirmed reports from within the country
putting the toll twice as high. The powerful was felt as far away as Vietnam's
capital Hanoi.

Presenter: Liam Cochrane

Speaker: Chris Herink, World Vision's
country director for Burma

COCHRANE: Now, you've sent some photos
through to us earlier this morning showing us the destruction.

An Australian senator says sporadic violence
is continuing in eastern Burma, near the Thai border, and says villagers
are still fleeing into Thailand in their hundreds and sometimes thousands.
But they are often being pushed back into areas of fighting by Thai soldiers
and are forced to flee again days later. The Australian Greens Party senator,
Sarah Hanson-Young, has raised the alarm after visiting the town of Mae
Sot, a key crossing point for Burmese fleeing their country.

In August, the Burmese army seized control
of the Kokang region, which is along the border with the southwestern Chinese
province of Yunnan, after it had been controlled for years by an ethnic
Chinese militia.